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DBMS > Amazon CloudSearch vs. BigObject vs. GeoMesa

System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. BigObject vs. GeoMesa

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NameAmazon CloudSearch  Xexclude from comparisonBigObject  Xexclude from comparisonGeoMesa  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA hosted search engine service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloudAnalytic DBMS for real-time computations and queriesGeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.
Primary database modelSearch engineRelational DBMS infoa hierachical model (tree) can be imposedSpatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score2.35
Rank#135  Overall
#12  Search engines
Score0.23
Rank#345  Overall
#153  Relational DBMS
Score1.02
Rank#225  Overall
#4  Spatial DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchbigobject.iowww.geomesa.org
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchdocs.bigobject.iowww.geomesa.org/­documentation/­stable/­user/­index.html
DeveloperAmazonBigObject, Inc.CCRi and others
Initial release201220152014
Current release4.0.2, July 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infofree community edition availableOpen Source infoApache License 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageScala
Server operating systemshostedLinux infodistributed as a docker-image
OS X infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Data schemeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nono
Secondary indexesyes infoall search fields are automatically indexedyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like DML and DDL statementsno
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIfluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoLuano
Triggersnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes infoautomatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as requirednonedepending on storage layer
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infomanaged transparently by AWSnonedepending on storage layer
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnonedepending on storage layer
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyes infoautomatically between fact table and dimension tablesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoRead/write lock on objects (tables, trees)yes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesdepending on storage layer
User concepts infoAccess controlauthentication via encrypted signaturesnoyes infodepending on the DBMS used for storage

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